Hating on the $EC - Mostly Alabama (and a little Georgia too)

[AlabamAlum]

Heh. The holds (LSU grabbed from behind and held on for dear life) were funny. Welcome to the SEC. We do not officiate well. Just have to play through it.

[AlabamAlum]

Tuanos:

[hack]

Not in any way challenging your statement there, but can anyone name any sport that's widely seen as officiated well?

[AlabamAlum]

No, but there are degrees of incompetence. I actually do not believe that the SEC had the worst refs. I think the Pac-12 is worse.

[crashcourse]

best thing for the SEC would be Georgia beating bama almost guaranteeing 2 out of the 4

[THE_WIZARD_]

Correct. That would fuck the B1G. Clemson and The Lamers are locks.

[Jeff Buchanan]

Correct. Not to mention the steaming pile of shit the targeting call that was changed by some lawyer in the PAC-12 replay center was.

Terrible.

I don't have a lot of complaints about BT refs. They've seemed to improve over the season. There's a definite decline in offensive holding calls - I'd like to see some stats to support that but it seems that way. M has not suffered any game changing bad calls and has seemingly played through the bad PI or rare holding calls that may not have been game changing but were nonetheless questionable. M's opponents do a lot of holding v. M's pressure D up front and seemingly get away with it but that seems to me to be all a part of just not calling a lot of holding calls this season.

I think PIs are tough calls and for the most part, the BT refs have been pretty consistent with them of late - not so much when the season started - better now. M gets away with a lot of handsy stuff. Good coaching I'd say.

While I think the targeting rules need to be refined, when that call is made, enforcement or reversals seem to be consistent and especially in the last 3 or so games. Also a very tough call to make at full speed and because of the way the rules are written, when the play is reviewed slo-mo, fairness is easy to compromise. You can find for or against targeting and probably found to be right > 60% of the time. The hit on DPJ in the PSU game, initially called as targeting on the field, was reversed, and correctly, IMO, but man that one could have gone either way and probably judged as the correct call based on a reading of the confusing targeting rules.

[THE_WIZARD_]

As a college football official I will admit the targeting call is the most inconsistent call in CFB today. I understand when the crew misses it on the field at full speed but when the review booth misses it it's ridiculous.

[iam416]

It'll be interesting to see how M DBs do in the NFL. They really do play with their hands, which the B10 is fine with (and I'm fine with). But the NFL isn't. I wonder if there's a transition. Jourdan Lewis was really good in college, but he wasn't super athletic by NFL standards and he can't hand check to make up for it. And he ain't playing for Dallas at the moment.

[THE_WIZARD_]

_STFU

[UMStan White]

"Not in any way challenging your statement there, but can anyone name any sport that's widely seen as officiated well?"

Lacrosse (but you wouldn't know that because you don't know jack shit about lacrosse)

[AlabamAlum]

I wrote a textbook on lacrosse. I am the foremost International authority on the subject.

[froot loops]

I've seen some bad lacrosse referees.

[AlabamAlum]

Oh. I thought we were talking about Buicks.

[THE_WIZARD_]

I wrote a textbook on lacrosse. I am the foremost International authority on the subject.

Suddenly AA's idiocy makes perfect sense now.